Hollywood Handbook - Adam Conover, Our Close Friend Again

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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It's good to actually have a political guy here for this. I know people, I understand people. And so that's the perspective that I'm coming from just like how people What think about what they want? I always say this I don't understand necessarily like all the policies and structures and formal things what I understand is Human beings what you know what what people think about guts. I human beings, what people think about. The human guts. I really connect to guts and what they think about

and what they want and how they go about trying to acquire it, yes? By hook or by crook. And with the case of some of these guys you're talking about, it might be more by crook. And so, you know, this is a disaster, obviously. Like I'm watching this thing. It's a fucking mess. I watched it too. This, like, and at some point, I just had to shut it off.

And it was really just like, saying that someone has the morals of an alley cat, is this a level of meanness that I cannot? It, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, I cannot. It's beneath, it's beneath us as a country. And I think he was embarrassed too. And I think that's why he's kind of like,

He froze up. I think that's why he said it like that. Could barely get it out. I wouldn't be surprised if it was written for him. Yes. I've known the guy a long time. I have not seen that kind of remark come out. So that would be news.

I wouldn't be surprised if people said, you have to do this, it's gonna have an impact. This is what Gen Z, and the Z is for fucking zombies. Because they don't have any brains of their own. They gotta eat yours. Honestly, if that's like, it's gonna go viral on click clack for you is like, you know, the way they do this. The Gen Z's always talking about alley cats.

Do you like alley cats? Do you defend them? I like them not because of their morals. I like them because they're brave. They're out there doing the damn thing every day. They are survivors, right? I mean, this is what we know. They are doing what they need to do to sustain.

And so then to somehow bring that, like this damnation, right? Of this animal, you know? A living thing, right? Who did not make the choice to be in an alley. Yeah, that's true. The alley cat did say, hmm, here's what the alley cat didn't do.

Hmm, a warm home with a loving family, a Purina food feast prepared for me each night, yes? Or maybe an alley with a fishbone if I'm lucky. They didn't do that. This is the implication, like I don't like this guy and I don't like a lot of the stuff he's doing. I'm like, it's not for me personally.

If it was a choice for me, I'd say don't. The other guy. And frankly, both of them. But to basically imply, not in so many words, but to very strongly imply that he is putting a whole fish in his mouth and pulling out a skeleton. Yeah.

I mean, that was what, I think that's what we were supposed to infer from- Yeah. A fish which was rotten. That Mr. Trump is putting a whole fish in his mouth and pulling out a fish skeleton. Yes. He's putting on a bib, putting the fish, caking out of the trash can, finding a whole fish, putting in his mouth.

Holding by the tail. Xylophone noise as it comes out. Deep throating the fish, yes, yes, giving it that gluck gluck 5,000 basically. Yes, yes. And pulling out the bones. That is not what I thought politics was about. I actually stupidly thought it was about helping people.

Is that naive? I feel like a fool. I think it is naive. Yeah. I thought that that was, I thought they were in a service position for the American people. And instead it's a schoolyard mudslinging contest. And the thing is, nobody wins a mudslinging contest.

We all get dirty, even the audience. But say what you want, I was like, you know, the level of meanness, I'm not going for that stuff, but like this, the guy, the quiet guy is like so famous. The quiet guy. He's like unbelievably famous. And I'm like, I'm watching this.

Joe Biden? Just being like, yeah. Probably. Your takeaway was like. I'm watching this and being like, this guy is like really, really famous. Massive celeb star power. Did you see this?

Well, what a- Kevin, did you- He's in the fucking news. Yeah, I saw it. So we, I mean- I'll say this. Kevin saw it. I'll say this, my dog bites someone,

I don't end up in the news. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, that's what you gotta think about, of like, how small a thing can this guy do, or not even do, just be around when it happens, and it's news? That's famous, man.

That's famous. That's your takeaway about the presidency is that it's a famous. I mean, at least this guy is like. This guy in particular seems to be getting a lot of ink. Yeah, there are a lot of tweets about what happened. They've got major engagement. To explain this to me. There seems to be getting a lot of ink. Yeah, there are a lot of tweets about what happened. There you got major engagement.

Attraction. Explain this to me. How do you get that much tweets? How does it get that big? How does it get, like, how do you get in there? Yeah. In his case, it was by getting really old. Okay.

That's how he got all the tweets. But that's not how he got it in the phone. How do you get it in the phone? Oh, like how do you load them? Whether you, whether you. I don't know the language for me. I'm probably not gonna nail the terminology. Uh-huh.

But I have. Download and upload. But this is your thing, and this is why it's so great to have a political guy and also that you also can explain some of this stuff. Sure. In terms, because I never would have said load Would you have said load? No, that makes me think of something else

Yeah, which I you know, which I I Know how to do but not always just it's not always the same. I was I'm trying to keep it off the phone That's one thing Are you talking about coming? I think you know how to do it. I think he was. Yeah. And, and I was too.

I, yeah, I know how to do it, but I just kind of wish it were more the same every time. You know what I mean? Uh huh. It's just like, every time it's just kind of like, what is this going to be that? It's too variable for you. What's going to happen?

I'm just kind of like, all right. No, it's fun. It's too variable for you? What's gonna happen? I'm just kinda like, all right. No, it's fine, it's Russian roulette. Yeah, let's just see what this is today. Jesus Christ, that's a new one. Have you seen a doctor? That sounds distressing. They don't have a doctor that just does this.

It's true. I want one that's just like, okay, just only this. They'll look at it after, but they don't look at it go. They don't see it go. Right, they don't watch the moment. And that's what it's like, the after is kind of whatever. I agree the phone thing, like for a while, that was more of an issue,

but like that has been pretty much figured out. And I started to, and people listening can do this, I started to write before stop and guess and write it down. What I thought was gonna happen. Yeah. And you mail it yourself. I'm batting like 220 maybe.

Like I'm not never right, but I'm not right enough. What's the biggest disparity between your prediction of reality? My guess and what happened? Yeah. Uh, I one time I guessed big and it was so small. Mm. Which like, yeah.

Yeah. But earlier in that day it had been big. Oh, well that's your problem. There is a cost and effect. Nobody said I have a problem. It was big early, then you used up, you know? How do we get here? See, that's why it's so great to have a political government.

How do we get here, right? This is what I've been saying. Sometimes after it happens, I'm like, how did it get here and where did it go? Yeah. Like, where is it? Are you talking about coming again? Is it, where did it go?

Yeah, sometimes I'm like, where did it go? Sometimes I'll be like, where is it? And I'm like looking around. You're certainly also like, you're laying this on us. You're the one who brought up loads. It's true. It's true, I steered it there. But like, so like just,

I'm thinking about famousness, I think could be interesting where like, well, this is actually interesting. This is. Because we think about famousness I think could be interesting. We're like, well this is actually interesting. This is. Because we think about what this like, where this all began and we trace it all backwards. Go off. You did actually ruins everyone's dick at some point.

I remember you ruinzing mine in pretty sure. We're into the ruinzing. Ruins mine. Ruins your dick? Yeah. How did it ruins your dick? Oh, we did the episode about circumcision. Yeah, it was just one,

it felt like you did a whole season of them. We did. For all the conversation around it, I assumed it was the premise of the entire season. Oh, our very original. If not the show itself. Our original Adam Ruins Everything web series, we did an episode on circumcision and then we did it again for the show itself. Our original ad was everything web series, we did an episode on circumcision

and then we did it again for the TV show. So it's probably gonna be a hit. As if I'm gonna watch that and go, oh, okay, nevermind. Yeah. Like I'm gonna go, oh, okay, let me just switch back. And there's, and now there's an entire TV show about abolish my dick.

That. The whole TV show. What? That's what you said basically. I, so. Didn't you? I see. That's what you, you've, you've, when that episode came out.

That was a lot of people's takeaway. You took, your takeaway was an entire show that says Abolish My Dick. I mean that's like pretty much what it, what it ultimately came out. Well meanwhile the G word was goo. It was the goo coming out of my dick, you know what I mean?

Which apparently is like all you wanna talk about is these loads of the stuff. And I go, I thought this was a political guy. I'm a political guy, but people don't care about politics. And so I gotta, I've realized I have to sort of inject the sex into my act, talk about things people really care about, which is mostly, people don't care about,

if I just make my entire career about antitrust reform, I'm never gonna make Nikki Glaser money, you understand? I need to talk about fucking. That's what people care about in their lives, and so that's my mid-career pivot. That's big facts. Glaser money. Yeah, Glaser money. I want a Verizon ad one day, and the only way to get that

is to talk about sex, dating. Butt holes. Dating, yes. Dating, yeah. Dating is fucking nutso butso. This stuff is out of control, and it didn't used to be like that. Now it's gotten, dating now is like dating before

on steroids. I'm serious. The fucking apps dude. The apps. What it does to your brain to have effectively a menu of infinite strange. And I'm in for men and women. This is not, you know, and, and any, literally anyone. Yeah.

Jesus Christ. Soon for AI too. Huh? Talk about that. Talk about, talk about how soon we're going to be dating AI's. AI is going to be fucking each other. Yeah. That's the, I mean, that's why I'm not so worried.

Where do I get in on that? On the AI's fucking each other? Where do I find, I'm just kind of like off to the side, like, where do I, Yeah. Yeah. Right. No, that'll be- Where do I find purchase here?

We're just going to watch them. I've spent so long trying to not to get it on my phone. And now I have to? I really got good at that. And now I have to, now I have to get it all over my phone? That to me is such a betrayal of my training. Oh, you're training, what is your training? Missing the phone, like getting it away from the phone,

getting the phone away. Uh-huh. Throwing the phone. And you can sort of, Ah! You get, like, you really work on it enough, you get, have you seen the movie Wanted? The one where they curve bullets?

Yeah, they curve it around. You could do that, but like with the phone. Around the phone. You could go around the phone. You gotta get a running start like they did in Wanted. And it's just, wha! And you'll curve it like a baseball pitcher. Almost completely around the phone.

A little does get on there. That movie should have been called Curve Bullets, shouldn't it? Because you gotta remember every time it comes up, Wanted, oh the Curve Bullets movie? It's because there's not that much about, that I remember about who is wanting. Who wants who.

Who's wanted, everyone's wanted in some way in that movie. That's what's kind of interesting. He's wanted, well is he? He's finding out that he is, I guess, genetically born into a league of secret assassins with the ability to curve bullets. So does he want it? Do they want him or does he not even have a choice?

They're just informing him. It's nice to be wanted. Like if somebody tapped you tomorrow and just went like, by the way, Adam, and no offense for you, it would probably be curving bullets for you, it would probably be something. If you're- Even in the hypothetical, I don't get to curve bullets?

Like this is a hypothetical situation. Oh no, yeah, that's right. It's probably that you can read really fast or something. You're being tapped tomorrow because you can curve bullets, okay. Okay, fine, you're curving bullets. And Adam Conover has been recruited into a secret assassin society, and here's why.

Because he can curve bullets. Yeah. It's a fictional scenario. It's probably gonna be like, we need you to read a book that's closed. Like you can read it, like the book's closed, but you could still see the pages or something like that. Does it apply to anything else?

The audience wouldn't find it plausible that I could curve, that I could curve a bullet. There's no audience. I'm saying if this happened, would that mean that you were wanted? Yeah, they want me. They want you to know that. They want me for the secret society of assassins that can curve bullets, and it's nice to be wanted.

But you're in it. Yeah, I guess they want you to participate. Is he being hunted at some point? I don't remember what. Speaking of participating, you see how he just like always has to just come over and just do a little business with the camera. No, the camera guys are always like,

they want you to know they're there. Yes, people just want to be seen, don't they? The biggest divas though, sound guys, huge divas. Cause they're always just like, everything's gotta stop. Everything's gotta stop. Oh, we have a hole. Hole for me. Society's taking place. Oh, we have a hold. Hold for me.

Oh, society's taking place. Yep. And then room tone. Normal commerce is proceeding. Oh, everyone's done with everything? Actually, no, I need a minute. And can you hold still and be quiet? Everybody, it's the best part of the day.

It's time to go home. Nope. Everyone has to stand perfectly still for 30 seconds. Because this motherfucker wants room tone that they can layer, grab it in between the words, there's plenty. Can we just get the one room tone? That's a great idea.

And that's enough? This room's so different, the tone's so different in this room. Actually, can I just be quiet real quick? I'm just trying to see something, can I just be really quiet real quick? I'm just trying to see something. Can we just be really quiet real quick? We saw this room top. We saw this room top.

And this has been this becomes the room top. Every movie that gets made after this, it's the Wilhelm scream. But it's the Wilhelm room top. And I think we're being quiet enough that they could probably still use it. The Wilhelm room top. Yeah, I think so. Those sound guys are just like being a little, like they could probably still use it. The Wilhelm Rooftop. Yeah, I think so.

Those song guys are just like being, they're too much about it. You can count Wilhelm. We should call it, well it's good because if it's a restaurant or something is the room, they probably want some background. It should be called, should be named after us. It should be named after us and we should probably each do a new scream too.

I wanna be cut in on dog. These you want to do some screams? Yeah, maybe a new laugh. Get one, because like the one that they can laugh for sweetening the laughs. Some of these comedies now I watch these comedies today. I don't hear anyone laughing. Yeah. Am I crazy?

Yeah. Isn't that part of. Yeah. Am I crazy? Yeah. Isn't that part of what it's supposed to be? They don't have any laughter sounds very passe now. And you know what we used to have that? We used to have, it used to be a great country. You watch the beef. Do you watch the beef? I do, the beef or the bear?

The beef. Beef, wait, wait. I call it the beef. I call it the beef. Sure it says the beef, but like, even they can't get this straight. We just had Iowa here and she didn't know what the fuck she was talking about.

This Girl From The Beef was just, and it was like, what are you talking about? And why, when I'm watching the show, are you not indicating to me, with some kind of laugh from a ghost, because it was dead people you were listening to laugh, by the way. When you're enjoying-

Oh, I've heard this. When you're enjoying, you know, everybody's friends with Raymond, or, you know, like all these shows. Yeah, you're laughing along with dead ghosts. So. What's odd is in so many sitcoms, they were live audiences,

but they made them sound like dead people. Maybe purposefully. Sort of like it added a little echo to it, and some rattling chains and bones. They were real humans, but people wouldn't believe it. They'd be like, I'm listening to the voices of the dead. And if people found that eerie and unsettling, they'd say, stop doing it.

I'm just doing my screen. Sorry. That's your screen. I'm just doing my screen, sorry. That's your screen. I'm just doing my screen. That was a good one. Well, you should do it again because we were talking under it. I think that helps.

Okay. I think that's good. That was it. Yeah. Did you like it? You're not gonna do another one? No, I think that was, I think we got it at once. I'm just trying to remember it.

No, yeah, that was. It was a little bit like a soul singer kind of. Somebody falls on the cliff. Yeah, someone falls on the big cliff. Well, still some dignity in screaming, you know what I mean? Like it's a performance after all. Can I do my memory of what it was?

Sure, yeah. It was kind of like a. Ah! It was a little less of the vocal fry that your generation is famous for. I think it was just like a. Ah! Just a very clean, pure note like that, right?

It was in the moment. Yeah. Y'all gotta fuck around and make me do it again now because that wasn right? Is that right? Yeah. In the moment. Yeah. Well, y'all gotta fuck around, make me do it again now, because that wasn't quite it, but it was, wah! Oh, there was a wah. There was a.

There was a W. There was a clean W that we missed. That's great. That was the talking, that was tough. So maybe people could cut that in, people listening can cut that in. Well, maybe they can edit it into some movies with some famous scream moments.

With people falling down. Yeah, I mean, yeah, somebody falling, somebody being shot or stabbed in the moment that like the knife enters them, you hear them go, whaa! Or they could put some of our room tone over it maybe as well. That sounds great. And then you guys get paid.

We get a little license from them. And you know somebody watches that. And you know what? That's what we were fighting for in the strike. It worked, didn't it? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And that's why you guys are gonna, you're gonna make bank now from this.

We're gonna make BuKu. You should fuck me. That's been good to me. I've been thanking you. I've been thanking, thank you. It's good we have this political guy here. Thank you for coming Thanks, thanks for ruining my oh, we can't do I don't want to like be too much shit. I wasn't even using it

Using your dick I mean That's what I not Love to ruin what I've seen is not not the way that from what I've seen, it's not the way that it's intended. You know, like the thinking and like, you know, this is a little like playing like grab ass or whatever. It's all well and good. I do think there's opportunities for us to like, you know, we're getting along pretty well in here, obviously.

Yeah, but better than last time. And so, but the last- Well, and I made it actually a mission of mine today to say, let's not let this get like last time. Yeah. No matter, no matter- It was a little tough. How he is, and you know how you can be.

I'm myself every day, so I know it intimately. Yes, let's not let it devolve into that because it was really unpleasant. But it was good. And that's what I was thinking, and it actually became a little bit famous. I went on your community, your listeners said it was one of the best episodes they had ever heard on the show.

Yeah, it achieved a famousness that I want to have. I'd love to recapture. And so I sort of wonder if maybe we can set up a thing where like, do you, like maybe you're, because I've noticed like a lot of what you're, when you put something on blast, like the studios, for example. Put them on blast.

And, but also they're like, now some of the most famous companies. I had not been home so much about the studios I didn't know who was in charge of a lot of them and stuff right and then you put them on blast and they're in Every movie names there in everybody's mouth. I'm seeing them on the front of the movie David Zaslav made him Ted Sarandos made him yeah, Bob Iger made him yeah Yeah, no, I got like I got like aggregate 10 million views on videos of me just like yelling at Bob Iger. And so did they.

And they got, yeah. And so did they. Ultimately those are their views. So why? And that's why I deserve an overall. One thing that we, and I think you'd look great in overalls. Booo!

And you thought he was getting ready to say something else, and the whole time he was thinking about that and said, it really sounded like he was going like, it came to me, it came to me and I said, I'm fucking, I'm just gonna fucking say it. I don't care, you know, it's supposed to be a fun show. And I fooled almost. I mean, that's blazer accuracy. I gotta do, yeah, I gotta do it sometimes.

But I think it could be cool. But if you're putting us on blast, is there a rate sheet or something for that? Oh, to put people on blast. Because I'm just seeing. What if this show, for example, was really dangerous? I'm just seeing. What if this show, for example, was really dangerous?

Oh, you guys wanna do something to be put on blast. No, I don't wanna necessarily have to do anything. How are you being treated by these guys? Have you heard the song lyric, I ain't here to break it, just see how far it will bend? I've not heard that song lyric, but I do catch the meaning of the sentence. What song is it from? It's a Queens of the Stone Age song.

I was listening to it today and was like, wait a second. And that's how you feel here? No, we, no. You're not broken, but they're seeing how far you can bend? To finish your idea, like they are here to break it. Yeah, what does the song lyric mean to you? They aren't trying to kill me, like, on a single day. Yeah, and what's your name?

I'm Kevin. So we could put you on blast about how you abuse Kevin. Would that work? I'm fine with that. I really don't think that that would stick to me at all. Well, you want it to stick. That's what makes you more famous. And this is the problem.

Yeah, yeah. People are gonna like. I don't think Kevin's a sympathetic figure. You know what I mean? I'm not a food baby. Not a food baby? Yeah, people like- We've gone down this road of potentially,

we do a famous infidelity with Kevin. I was gonna say, I got there too. You said food baby, I was like, wait, Try Guy food baby? Let's try guys. So that's famousness. That's fame. All you have to say is,

two of the most famous words ever, food and baby. They were actually famous already, even as a combination, but now they've been reclaimed. And now together, they become one of the most famous infidelities. Yeah. And people are actually out there screaming infidelities because of, now for real, because of that? Yeah, we, because we have cameras in here

and we were gonna accidentally get caught like giving Kevin brain to the monitor. You were gonna, you were gonna do that? Yeah, I was gonna be schlorping down on Kevin's hog. Just, you know. Yeah? Cause I, you know. If you did that.

I love my family and everything. I'm sort of very like front-facing, like wife guy. And so it could have been. Yep, yep, could have been big. Perhaps like a massive betrayal. And then somebody like you. And front-facing the way that you do stuff too, like, hey guys, wife guy here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what he means. Yeah. But like, so I guess like, I don't, I kinda got cold feet, you know? But if I were to do it or even if we were to. Kevin doesn't like you to wear socks during that, for some reason, I don't know,

I don't understand what that- That's why your feet are cold. Has to do with anything. You gotta see, yeah. That's okay, so. I mean, even just the way- Okay, now it does make sense. Even just the way you're talking about him right now

is arguably something that you could be put on blast for. Even just this discussion is blastable. But I'm just curious, what's a rant? The sock thing? Yeah. Geez, now I really don't understand anything. My employee doesn't let me wear socks while I give him brain.

Yeah. That's what you're saying. That's, you know, it's a workplace violation. Well, I didn't say the sock thing. Hayes brought up the sock thing. I'm just saying you got a lot of elements that could really make you go viral in the way that you're describing. Hayes brought up the sock thing. I was thinking you got a lot of elements that could really make you go viral in the way that you're describing.

Hayes brought up the sock thing, but I'm saying what's a rant sound like where it's like, okay, dude was giving neck to the producer mid-pod, and something that you could do where you're kind of like, and we'll figure out the rate or whatever, but where you're like, kind of like, laying in about that,

that maybe could get us some fucking clicks. The only problem is that- Put my name in the front of a movie produced by this guy. I don't do that work for hire. I do that for equity only. Oh, God. Jeez Louise. That's what I do. Points. That's what I do.

Points. That's what I bill. Kevin already has points on this for like his involvement. Right. Well, he needs them the most. He calls it inequity. And he's got like a, I mean, he's got a chunk of this thing. A chunk?

Yes. He had to tie it to the roof of his car, basically, just to get it home. That's how much of this project he's got. Wow. Yeah. Well, there's, I mean, you're gonna have to slice up the pie if you want, you know, if you want more people to eat pie, you gotta cut more pieces.

Well, I think you should come out of Kevin's end. That's, that's, that's, He's the one being sexually abused. That's a non-spirited. He should get more. Oh my God, it's not abuse. No, you don't think so? Just cause he wants to wear socks.

Like I, this, again, I really don't understand. What happened is like being the boss, anything that we're allowed to, like we, we can't even choose where we wear socks or not while we do that. Come on, dude. It's really hard. Oh, I'm in charge. I'm like CEO of a company.

Yeah. And I gotta give Dome barefoot. It's really hard to be. That makes a lot of sense. It's hard to be a man. It's open season, man. Open season on you guys. The entire fucking be a man. It's open season. Open season on you guys. The entire fucking gender, man.

Open season. And has been for, oh, 10 fucking years. Jesus Christ, man. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. Because it's just so much. And wake me up when it's no longer open season.

I'm not a particular gender. Fuck dude. So let's- Whatever, it's fine. Kevin has 80. We each at this point, I mean, like, Casey had to set up the cameras and stuff, so he has 12.

Wow. So much. Kevin has 80? Yes. So there's eight left for you guys? Now there's eight left for us. Wow. Yeah.

I didn't realize you guys had given away so much of the show. I don't know, we just got. You're working for Kevin. We got out a little over our skis here, I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm sorry. It's just the idea, the sort of like lightning bolt

of the idea. I'm sorry. Charged up. Everything for me is doing a complete 180, you know, it's topsy turvy, up is down, because I asked Kevin how he was treated, because I thought how he was treated because I thought that he was subordinate to you guys.

Now I find out that he's got 80% of the show and he insists that you be barefoot while you blow him. And return for receiving. He's got 80% of the show. I still don't classify that as abuse. No, no, that's fine. And if that's abuse, abuse me.

Well, I was saying that the power dynamic is the opposite of what I thought it was. I'm a little worried you guys are in more of a Britney Spears situation where you're being forced to perform for other people. Well, if we can really get the, put on blast for this, then I really think we get, that 8% could become like, but here's what's it, 28%, like I don't know exactly how it works, go ahead. I really think we get that 8% could become like 28%.

I don't know exactly how it works, go ahead. It's seeming like what he wants to say is he'd like to put Kevin on blast for the way he's treating us. Now we're, so now we're suddenly. Kevin is becoming famous. Then we become the WAG, who is getting actually a lot of the runoff of like the fame is like they're doing bad stuff to this person,

them people feel bad for us. Our name's still in the rant. Okay. We're the food baby. Yeah. Yeah. All right, guess we're Ned's wife. But that's okay.

It's fucking great. Kept her hands clean. Yeah, she came out the best, Ned's wife. Yeah. Yeah, I think that could work for you guys. She shook herself loose from a scoundrel, Kevin. Right. I was watching one of these Try Guys videos the other day.

What were they trying? They, there's only one left. Oh my God. And pieces of his body are fading away. Yeah. That's true. Like in Looper. Yes.

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Back to the what? Back to the Looper you mean? Damn dude. I just think that movie made a big impression. Whoa. Hollywood handbook. Well, it's happened to all of us, but getting ripped off is no joke,

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And you have to, you tend to sort of like fill up the frame when you do these, so you're probably gonna have to get right up against the camera as well. I have to be holding the camera, because I do my own camera work where I take it, it's close and then it's far away, and I go back and forth to get a dramatic push in, as I'm like, hey guys, like that.

Every time we brush up against the camera, Casey gets another point, so I guess we'll. It's just better work is all I'm saying. When you're discussing the contract, here's a line you could say. My points, you say, call him Tom, because he's 80 for Brady. Yeah.

You were so on top of that. That's what he said in the negotiation. Call me Tom, because I'm hating Brady. But this could be instructive for you guys, because you want the drama, because you think about Tom Brady at that roast, and he got so mad. He got really pissed off.

What Jeff Ross said about him. Yes, but he got famous, I mean he got unbelievably famous as well. Yes, yeah it was great. That's exactly what should have happened, was all there's a joke, it's too touchy, he doesn't like the joke, and he complains about it. Yo, but Nicky Glazer. Everybody's exactly what should have happened was all there's a joke was too touchy doesn't like the joke You'll be Nikki Glaser. Everybody wants. Nikki Glaser was there too. Nikki Glaser crushed at it. She's always, she's like.

She's got so much money. Yeah. Yeah, she has a lot of money. Kim Kardashian DM'd her in the studio. You killed it. That could be you Adam in this very spot. Mm-hmm. Wow. DM from Kim. That's fucking sick. That's what I want. I mean that's. Going 80 for Brady. That's fucking sick. That's what I want. I mean that's. Going 80 for Brady. That's fucking sick, dude. I got Glaser goals.

Maybe you could say he's the original head writer of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon because he's 80 miles. Wow. But and currently the head writer again. He's now. Is he back? He's back. Original head writer and the head writer again. He's now once again. Is he back? Yeah.

Original head writer and currently head writer again. I remember taking a break. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he's back. You gotta follow the movements in late night. Oh, do I gotta do that? Yeah, it's a hot part of the industry right now.

Okay, I gotta do that. Yeah. Tell me what I gotta do. 80 miles on a rocking chair on his porch. Just seems like a normal guy in the neighborhood. He's like, you know, feeding his chickens or whatever. Neighbors wave as he goes by. Big black car pulls up.

Bunch of guys in suits get out. Like, AD, we're gonna need you to come back. I told you I'm out of that game. One last same job as before. I mean, someone's got to figure out which celebrity is gonna crack an egg on their own head. Yes, that's hard to get them to do that. Ariana Grande, we need you to crack an egg

on your own head and that's television. It feels so weird. Yeah, it feels weird. Yeah. Almost no one would do that on this show. Almost no one? Almost no one. Who's the one person who would do it?

Just add Max Silvestri, I could've made him do it. Cracking egg in his head, yeah. But that was like, he was coming in here with an energy of like, I could see that he had the eggs in his back pocket, like literally when he got here, and was like hoping to be able to take them out, that we would ask him to do it and be like, oh, okay, well I have these eggs or whatever, but we didn't ask him, so he sat down,

got the eggs all over his, all over his hind. On his butt. Yeah. Oof, that doesn't come out easily. Am I sitting in the spot where the egg was? So many people have sat there since then. Okay, okay. That's wiped away.

It's kind of been, well, it's been sat on and it hatched. What are the kind of energies that people come in here with? Because I never know how to calibrate myself. Like what are the types of energies? That's clear. Yeah. The types of energies, there's, I guess, yeah. So there's what you've come in with. And then there's like helpful, helping the show,

trying to make the show like helpful helping the show, trying to make the show good, understanding the show. There's like, some people come in just with like this big sort of comedic energy, you know what I mean? Yeah, they're funny. There's complimenting the show. Oh my gosh, that is always so nice when they're positive about the show. Dropping little hints that you've listened

to other episodes. Oh yeah, kind of like calling back, connecting to things, knowing about, you know, something like the egg incident, right, which is obviously a bit sure. That one hasn't come out yet. No, but even so, you know, it's like, maybe they'll say, I don't wanna be like Max

and seem as if I'm trying to do the early prep stages. And tell me if this is the correct recipe. Early prep stages of butt cheek Florentine. Is that, does that use eggs in that sort of? It does. It does, doesn't it? Yes. You are so delighted by that.

Well, you know, I do try to, like with the overalls moment, find little pockets in the show that are for me. What the normal, I think you're in the right area with the recipe, I think normally it is referred to as eggs Florentine. So I think in this case, you replace the eggs. What about if I said butt cheek piccata? Is there eggs used in the sort of like breading or

In the breading. Is it dredged at all in egg? No, I feel like it's just bread crumbs probably. In piccata? Well, it's certainly not just breadcrumbs, there's a lemon zest. Yeah. It's not just, but.

See, I feel like people come into this show and they try too hard, they overthink it, they try to be funny. Last time I came on the show, I came in with no energy whatsoever. I didn't honestly even follow what you guys were talking about. And it was an all-time classic. And it was an all-time classic.

I had no idea what was going on, and I just tried to sit there and be on the mic, and that was an all-time classic episode, and I'm sure this will be as well. You can't try too hard. Is there something to your role as rant creator, as truth teller, as evaluator, where you do need to be removed, yes?

Do you need the bird's eye view, the thousand miles high sort of seeing it all, not doing, you know, like with this show, you're not, I wouldn't say you're doing the show with us. You don't think I'm doing the show with you. Well, what you said was last time, you couldn't follow what we were saying.

You're just sitting there being on the mic. Which is effectively, you're observing the show. But at some point- And that qualifies you in a way to give a big rant afterwards. But this is what we're trying to get at is nothing happens on the actual show.

We're just able to reference stuff that happened outside the show. Like achieving real famousness. Just had a high one here. Yeah. Very famous. We talked about this thing that she did, like whatever, before, and everyone was like,

went crazy. Dude. This thing she did, the beef? Buddy, we did bring up the beef. Yes. Buddy, people go fucking nuts for this stuff. And so if you got off, if you just went out, did a rant, really got your rocks off on it.

Yeah, missed the phone. Or we might even be connected with it. We might try to put a hole in it. We could, we have a thing where We could afford a new phone. Our other guests come on here and are like, oh, I see I'm in Adam Conover's seat. The seat is still warm because his ass got so burnt up.

You know? Yeah, from fame from the rant. And that's all they're saying. And we're like, look, everything's cool. Like, you know, like Adam's cool, we're cool. But that's all we're talking about at that point. Right. Yeah, we go, dude, it's water under the bridge.

That all got sorted out. We wanna make some drama. We wanna create some. And then people say, they spoke up about, like, they, okay, they got into it, and then the next episode, we get into it again. Okay, they got into it again. One thing I have noticed is that the biggest podcast,

the biggest comedy podcast, if you search for them on YouTube, there's countless videos of people talking about, do the podcasters hate each other? Are they alcoholics? Are they, like, they're making video essays about these guys. The biggest comedians in the country,

people hate them. They're fans, hate them, and they love to watch content. And it's hard to know, because all these podcast hosts are out there being like, I'm an alcoholic. And like, what do they mean? Right. Yeah. Are they alcoholics? Like, what do they mean by that?

When they say like, I am an alcoholic. What does that mean? Yeah. Are they? What do I mean when I say it? But then, yeah. But then I don't really see any videos the way I'm saying it's wrong because I don't really see any videos

the way I'm saying it's wrong, because I haven't seen many videos of people wondering. Do you guys want anti-fans? That's my question. Anti-fans can make you really hot. Well, I wouldn't mind some conspiracy theories around the show. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. I definitely, no one has, I think, theorized that we hate each other. The dominant theory is that we're sick of doing the show. And we've taken the doughboys, we're obviously, and all of us ganging up on them, I think could be useful at some point.

We have said many times on this show, we hate the doughboys. We're the only people out here willing to say, those dudes fucking suck. Can I tell you something? And we hate the show obviously, but we hate them. I record my podcast here, I see them twice a week. And they're, hey, how are you?

Hey, how are you? And I say, oh, I see Ryder. Oh, hey, you want some potato chips? Never once. Chips, the chips, the chips. In the break room right there. Right there. In the break room.

Never once invited me on the show. I've seen them dozens of times. Oh, you should be thanking the, whatever you call your god. You're in the cat bird scene. I call him Yahweh. You should be thanking whatever you just said. Yes, all the riches in the world to exchange places with you friend,

because we have a much worse situation, which is every single time we see them, they say. We gotta get you guys back on the show. Oh yeah. Never do it. And then they don't do it, and then they say they're gonna do it and then they schedule it and then one of them gets COVID. And then one of them mysteriously gets COVID.

Which one's giving COVID? One of them is serving big COVID energy. Is there a theory, do any of your fans have a theory that one of you sucks and the other one carries the show? That's a really popular opinion to have of popular. Yeah, people have their favorites. And they're somehow. Hayes went viral this week. Oh.

But they somehow always pick the wrong one at the wrong time. That's right. You know? They're always wrong. About which one is sucks. Which one is sucking and which one is carrying the show. Yeah.

It feels like, because it will feel like the one who's really peddling this thing is sucking. Yes. Because that's not an attractive quality. Yes. To be like really driving. It's much more, it looks like you're carrying the show sometimes when you're just sitting back

and every now and then you kinda, you know. Like my overalls, you kinda jump in. Yeah, no, you wanna be relaxed. Like a really funny joke. Honestly, the secret is you don't wanna be a try guy. You don't want to be appearing to try. You wanna seem to be relaxed wanna be a Try Guy. You don't want to be appearing to try. You wanna seem to be relaxed, like a food baby.

The food babies were known for being relaxed. Yeah, they're just chilling out and they're eating food. They're not, Try Guy is like whoa, don't try so much. Yeah, that's true. We gotta, I mean, what's the runtime of these rants? Like, we've got to get one off here. How long are they gonna need one? We've got to get off. 90 seconds.

We've got to get off a rant. 90 seconds. 60 on YouTube shorts, but I just cut it short. Can you go just like straight up to camera and just like... Which camera? Up to you. Maybe the one over your shoulder that was that one Sabotage it's not this makes me feel like we're on the right track. I'm looking for my reflection I think that's the absolute wrong camera to use

Okay, give me a top Casey pops up from behind the curtain what we Give you a topic. Yeah, yeah, okay. Kevin being a beautiful, like not letting his boss wear socks. Yeah. Okay, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Yes, when he's maybe, when he's hooking him off. Oh, a little extra light, that's great. When he's hooking him off. Call me the Throat. But how am I gonna do my patented- Call me the Throat Goat. My patented zoom, okay, I'll just, I'll go like this at the beginning.

Because you need a little motion that catches people in the first couple seconds. Yes, yes. Okay, ready? Are we really zoomed in? I'll zoom in when you do that. You'll zoom in when I do that? Okay, oh, we'll do a snap zoom. Okay, great, okay, great.

Tell me when. Three, two, one. Hey guys, I'm here on snap zoom. Okay, great. Okay, great. Tell me what Hey guys, I'm here on the set of Hollywood handbook Do you know about this show the producer of the it is a toxic work environment the producer of this show Kevin? Receives dome every day. He does not allow the host to wear socks One of them is very bad and one of them is sucking all the time The other one is just sitting back and watching and when they would both rather be food babies. Follow me and stay tuned for more.

Hit the like and subscribe. Now we have to do it every day. Yeah. Now you have to do that every day. Cause he said. That was, now normally I do, normally I do multiple takes, but much like your scream, we got it in one.

I can't imagine topping that. We got it, and we just get a little bit of room tone. Just a little room tone at the end. Oh, there's room tone here. This is the room tone. Yeah, okay. Close on Adam, and we have the room tone. Adam getting the room tone.

Okay. And bye. Bye. Whoa. And bye. Bye. Whoa. Hollywood handbook. That was a hate gum podcast.